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The ranks of the nation’s unemployed are swelling this week.
As President-elect Barack Obama’s team transitions into the federal government, President Bush’s political appointees will be locked out, and in these tough economic times many of them are scrambling to find new jobs. High-ranking White House loyalists have deluged Washington headhunters with pleas for jobs. Corporations and nonprofit organizations have stopped hiring. With the GOP out of power, jobs on Capitol Hill are scant and K Street lobbying firms have trimmed their golden parachutes.
So this is the new reality: Instead of boasting to friends and colleagues of new jobs in goodbye e-mails, many longtime Bush aides have offered home phone numbers and Gmail and Yahoo e-mail addresses as their new contacts.
“For Republicans, the inn is full,” lamented veteran GOP operative Ron Kaufman, a close White House adviser to former president George H.W. Bush and an executive at Dutko Worldwide. “You have lots of folks in the House and Senate on the streets and 3,000 administration appointees on the streets at a time when the job market is shrinking anyways. It’s just not a fun time.”
Of the roughly 8,000 politically appointed positions in the federal government, hundreds have been vacant since a wave of departures last spring, administration officials said. But appointees who have remained through the final days of the Bush administration have seen an already shaky job market collapse. The traditional avenues of employment for outgoing government officials — corporations, nonprofit foundations or think tanks — are clogged because of hiring freezes…
For many Bush appointees, this is the first time they’ve been on the job market for years, if not decades. Many came to Washington during the 1990s to take jobs in the Republican-controlled Congress, only to move into the administration after Bush’s 2000 election.
“These are people who haven’t put together a résumé in 20 years,” said Steve Gunderson, a former Republican congressman who is president of the Council on Foundations. He has been reviewing résumés of those seeking jobs in the nonprofit sector. “It’s a first for them in developing résumés, applying for open and competitive jobs, and trying to figure out where their skills might work best.”
So, who would you hire? For what position?.
# 14 Named said, “So, half your country is taught by God”
Umm, no. There is currently less religion in US schools than the prior 200 years. You must be from a small, backward country that is deprived of current info…
21,
And what do we find on the ed.gov site? Why, federally protected right to prayer in school…
http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/religionandschools/prayer_guidance.html
And… dun dun dun!
http://www.arn.org/docs/dewolf/guidebook.htm
But, whatever. You’re obviously the brightest bulb in the pack.
Come on, who wouldn’t hire Dana Perino as a MILF? The picture above is just begging for a Photoshop treatment….
Look on the bright side – at least *these* GOP operatives deserve the employment opportunities (or lack therof) they have created with their policies. I can’t say the same for the tens of thousands of Americans losing their jobs EVERY DAY (if you believe the weekly unemployment ports)
#21……..You must be from a small, backward country that is deprived of current info…
Thats rich coming from an American
# 22 Named said, “And what do we find on the ed.gov site? Why, federally protected right to prayer in school…”
Correct, in the US a child, as an individual, has a right to speech & their own religious beliefs.
So, what backward country without personal rights do you hail from?
# 24 thebiggster said, “Thats rich coming from an American”
And what patch of paradise do you live in?
They’ll just join the Christian Coalition thinktanks to cultivate Legislative,Judicial,Executive reform.
Since the former AG Frito Gonzales cannot find a Law firm to hire him now,he’ll likely settle into
the ACLJ or the American Center for Law and Justice.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/groups/american-center-law-and-justice
Paddy-O said: “Umm, no. There is currently less religion in US schools than the prior 200 years. You must be from a small, backward country that is deprived of current info…”
Umm, one does not follow from the other.. if half your country is educated by God himself, and your country is at a 200 year religious minimum, then sometime in the past 200 years, greater than half your country was being educated by God. Simple, no?
Fact is your country is still educationally feckless (on both sides of the teacher). Your nonsequitur illustrates this well.
# 28 jca2010 said, “Fact is your country is still educationally feckless”
This is fun. Where do you live?
What makes you think they’ll be out of work?
You don’t really think Obama will become President tomorrow do you?
George Bush has already declared a federal emergency for the DC area for tomorrow.
Isn’t that step one for THE PLAN?
Perino got the job because her name might be confused with the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. At least it would confuse the elderly voters. And the Bush Admin was all about confustion. And why thousands of aids? Sounds like they hired aids for the aids, to have that many. So while the government was running short operating funds (on a few occasions), they still managed to keep all these freeloaders on the payroll. Nothing like cutting the fat from the budget, by NOT CUTTING A DAMN THING. This sort of spending abuse, and Earmarks, ought to be put to a stop! It the 21th century. With computers and internet, there’s no practical need to have more aids employed than the Buckingham Palace.
#30, Lyin’ Mike,
You don’t really think Obama will become President tomorrow do you?
Well, a few million people plan on attending, or being as close as they can, the inauguration. Ain’t nuthin’ gunna stop it now!
BTW, is that a Chanel jacket she’s wearing? Between her and Palin, it appears the GOP has an exclusive deal with the designer. So nice to know that even the most temporary of appointees, can afford Chanel suits, in rough times like these.
25,
See, in my backwards country, we removed mandatory prayer from the school since you can’t practice all religions and there is no reason that religion should be in a public school. In you’re enlightened nation, its imperative that the right to prayer be allowed in public schools, thanks to NCLB, which is a Bush policy… Bush… the guy who gets his direction from God.
It’s nice to know that in rural Kansas, all students face Mecca to pray after they say the Lords prayer.
is she qualified to iron my shirt?
Jobs? They better get their defense lawyers lined up.
Dana was cool.
Wasn’t it the Senate that just gave themselves a ‘mandatory’ raise of $40k? Just think of all the extra assistants they could hire and keep these poor rePyubic-cans off the street corners.
#22 & 34 from your link
“Accordingly, the First Amendment forbids religious activity that is sponsored by the government but protects religious activity that is initiated by private individuals, and the line between government-sponsored and privately initiated religious expression is vital to a proper understanding of the First Amendment’s scope.”
“The Supreme Court’s decisions over the past forty years set forth principles that distinguish impermissible governmental religious speech from the constitutionally protected private religious speech of students. For example, teachers and other public school officials may not lead their classes in prayer, devotional readings from the Bible, or other religious activities. Nor may school officials attempt to persuade or compel students to participate in prayer or other religious activities. Such conduct is “attributable to the State” and thus violates the Establishment Clause.”
# 34 Named said, “See, in my backwards country,…”
And what rat hole is that?
Oh, and link to the “mandatory” prayer in US public schools?
What foreign tool & coward.